I absolutely HATED the first one. It's up there with Batman and Robin in my mind, seriously. The only action in the entire movie was in the last twenty minutes, and the rest of the movie was like a really, REALLY bad sitcom. I half expected a campy rip off of the Happy Days theme song to come in at the middle. I mean, there was an hour and a half there where it was just them sitting around in thier apartment, or being out in the city, "discovering" thier powers, in the most boring way possible. On top of that, the acting just sucked. Jessica Alba is hot, but she can't act. At all. Ioan Gruffard was just atrocious as Mr. Fantastic, but the funny thing is, I've seen him in other films where he was really good. Whoever played the Human Torch matched Jessica Alba in terms of acting quality. Jeez, he was cheesy as all hell, but thought he was really cool. It was painful to watch. And whoever played Dr. Doom acted it so flat that there was absolutely no sense of threat in the villain. However, I thought that Michael Chiklis played the Thing perfectly. He was great. Sadly, the body suit looked really, really fakey; I laughed when I first saw him because it looked so fake. CGI wouldn't have killed them, right? It wouldn't have looked perfect, but it would have looked better then the body suit and would give the character an other-worldly appearance he needed. Plus, the special effects were awful. Every time Mr. Fantastic stretched his arm, it looked....well, like a piece of CGI rubber. Not even real rubber. CGI rubber.

But the second film looks like it could be good. The first film I only saw because I was sent to the press screening for my paper, but I might actually check this one out on my own. It looks pretty good, though every time the Human Torch has a line in the trailer, I cringe.